This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity in the thematic year 2015 ''Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information'', and related events in the period 2014-2016.This volume especially contains an overview of recent developments in the theory of strings and membranes, as well as topological field theory.

This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity in the thematic year 2015 ''Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information'', and related events in the period 2014-2016.This volume especially contains an overview of recent developments in the theory of strings and membranes, as well as topological field theory.

This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity in the thematic year 2015 ''Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information'', and related events in the period 2014-2016.This volume especially contains an overview of recent developments in the theory of strings and membranes, as well as topological field theory.